CMDB Systems: Making Change Work in the Age of Cloud and Agile shows you how an integrated database across all areas of an organization’s information system can help make organizations more efficient reduce challenges during change management and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO). In addition, this valuable reference provides guidelines that will enable you to avoid the pitfalls that cause CMDB projects to fail and actually shorten the time required to achieve an implementation of a CMDB. Drawing upon extensive experience and using illustrative real world examples, Rick Sturm, Dennis Drogseth and Dan Twing discuss: <ul>
<li>Unique insights from extensive industry exposure, research and consulting on the evolution of CMDB/CMS technology and ongoing dialog with the vendor community in terms of current and future CMDB/CMS design and plans</li>
<li>Proven and structured best practices for CMDB deployments</li>
<li>Clear and documented insights into the impacts of cloud computing and other advances on CMDB/CMS futures</li> </ul>

CMDB Systems: Making Change Work in the Age of Cloud and Agile

Computers & Technology

Sturm, Rick

Drogseth, Dennis

Twing, Dan

Web Development & Design

Morgan Kaufmann

Application Performance Management (APM) in the Digital Enterprise enables IT professionals to be more successful in managing their company’s applications. It explores the fundamentals of application management, examines how the latest technological trends impact application management, and provides best practices for responding to these changes. The recent surge in the use of containers as a way to simplify management and deploy applications has created new challenges, and the convergence of containerization, cloud, mobile, virtualization, analytics, and automation is reshaping the requirements for application management. This book serves as a guide for understanding these dramatic changes and how they impact the management of applications, showing how to create a management strategy, define the underlying processes and standards, and how to select the appropriate tools to enable management processes.

Application Performance Management (APM) in the Digital Enterprise: Managing Applications for Cloud, Mobile, IoT and eBusiness

Pollard, Carol

Craig, Julie

An insider's guide to more effective application monitoring and control Foundations of Application Management Monitoring applications on all of your corporation's systems is a daunting, never-ending challenge that has probably caused you to lose more than your share of sleep. It's tough to keep track of the currently installed software and to make sure that only the legally licensed versions of software are in use across the organization. So far, there has been very limited success managing application systems. The challenge arises because software components may be running on thousands of PCs across, our organization, many with different operating systems. This book will help you meet the challenges of managing applications in todays highly distributed computing environment. Written by leaders in the movement for better application management, this book gives you practical and proven advice including: * Clear definitions of application management disciplines * What to look for in commercial application management tools * Coverage of the mainframe, desktop, and distributed computing environments * A review of the CIM, DMI, SNMP, POSIX, ARM, and AMS standards * Practical guidance for achieving application management * Details about current management tools Wiley Computer Publishing. Timely. Practical. Reliable. Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/

Application Management

Business & Money

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

John Wiley&Sons

Foundations of Service Level Management provides detailed recommendations for creating a service level management strategy and establishing service level agreements. This book also shows IT managers and executives at third-party SLM companies how to deploy services more quickly, placing a premium on time to market and time to scale, become more service oriented, delivering guaranteed services through service-level agreements (SLAs), evolve from reactive network management to proactive service management, and reduce costs whenever possible by automating network and service management. Additional resources for this title can be found at: http://www.enterprisemanagement.com/IT_Mgmt_Solutions/

Foundations of Service Level Management

Management & Leadership

Sams Publishing

This book provides the reader with a basic understanding of the major functions available from Unicenter TNG and the effort involved in implementing, customizing, and using it. It provides a survey of the major functions in the product set -The only book on the market on Unicenter TNG -Shows the power of one product to control an entire companys enterprise computing systems--from laptops, desktops, mainframes, and servers, to databases, applications, Intranets, and operating systems -Officially endorsed by Computer Associates--developed and technically edited by CAs Unicenter team

Working With Unicenter Tng

Networking & Cloud Computing

Que,c1998

Taylor, Robert H.

Rasmussen, Audrey

Software

Que Pub

SLM Solutions: A Buyer's Guide, is a powerful resource for anyone wanting expert advice on SLM tool selection. This book also provides valuable decision support information for enterprise and service provider IT departments tasked with selecting and implementing the right SLM solution.

SLM Solutions: A Buyer's Guide

Erickson-Harris, Lisa

Onge, David St.

Enterprise Management Assoc

SLM Solutions: A Buyer's guide, now in its second edition, is a powerful resource for anyone wanting expert advice on SLM tool selection. This book also provides valuable decision support information for enterprise and service provider IT departments tasked with selecting and implementing the right SLM solution.

SLM Solutions: A Buyer's Guide, Second Edition

Enterprise Management Associates

Choosing the right Service Level Management (SLM) solution doesn't have to be time consuming or complicated. SLM Solutions: A Buyer's Guide, now in its third edition, is a powerful resource for anyone wanting expert advice on SLM tool selection. This book also provides valuable decision support information for enterprise and service provider IT departments tasked with selecting and implementing the right SLM solution.

SLM Solutions: A Buyer's Guide, Third Edition

Winniford, MaryAnne

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